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Definition of Optative mood
1. Noun. A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs.
Category relationships: Sanskrit, Sanskritic Language
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Generic synonyms: Modality, Mode, Mood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optative Mood
Literary usage of Optative mood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Greek Book by Clarence Willard Gleason, Caroline Stone Atherton (1895)
"LESSON XIV THE optative mood —VAGUE FUTURE CONDITIONS—FINAL CLAUSES 170. Learn the
Optative Active of Xvo> (516) and the Present Optative of ..."
2. Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek by Ernest De Witt Burton (1892)
"THE optative mood. 174. The optative mood is much less frequent in the New Testament,
... Cf. Harmon, The optative mood in Hellenistic Greek, in JBL Dec. ..."
3. By and Large by Franklin Pierce Adams (1914)
"THE optative mood My soul to-day is far away, Like that of T. Buchanan Read's;
And I am fretful with the bay — (From one of Richard Hovey's screeds). ..."
4. The Classical Journal (1814)
"Quod proprie г'л domo fit, ipsi domui tribuitur. On the Use of av, or xs with an
optative mood, and a Conjecture of ..."
5. The Zulu-Kafir Language Simplified for Beginners by Charles Roberts (1880)
"optative mood. 1. (a.) Take Present tense No. 1. of the Potential Mood and double
the prefixes. Example. ninga ninga tanda ! may you love ! (fe. ..."
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